One of the aims of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project
is to give the underprivileged new opportunities and experiences they otherwise
wouldn’t have. Interestingly enough, some school children are using their
laptops to browse pornographic Internet sites.

According to a Reuters
report, a reporter at the official News
Agency of Nigeria discovered pornographic images on the donated laptops
from a U.S. aid organization. It is unclear whether or not school children were
actually caught in the act of browsing such websites.

"Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary
school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with
explicit sexual materials," reported the News Agency of Nigeria.

Perhaps in response to the discovery of the OLPC’s side
features, a representative for the laptop project said that the computers will
now be fitted with filtering software.

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I'm not sure what "many" means, 10%, 40%, 80%? But the plan would only be successful if all sites voluntarily agree to a transition and/or there was some way to legally compel them to change. But neither of those conditions are true.

> "No, it has to be "nearly all" in order to be an effective filtering mechanism."

If only 30% of all adult sites move behind this domain, it would mean a 30% reduction in the chance of a child stumbling across such a site by accident. That seems a rather worthwhile improvement. Since when is a filter useless if its less than 100% effective?

If you add a new adult-content TLD, then clearly that new space is easy for existing filters to block. But it doesn't change at all the problem of blocking existing TLDs - that problem stays the same as today. The net effect is that you opened a new namespace for adult web sites, but you still have the complexity of today's filtering/blocking systems.

If after such a change, a sizeable fraction of adult content moves from existing URLs to the new adult TLD, then this will be an improvement in the way you state. But what I think is more likely is that the pie will expand - in other words, millions of new sites with the new TLD will suddently appear, and the existing sites will continue to operate. After all, what incentive do existing adult site operators have to shut down sites using their existing URLs? They would most likely keep existing URLs in addition to securing additional new URLs in the new TLD. Net effect for filtering: minimal.